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...giant peanut, his view limited by a slit in an oversized bow tie. The papier-mache prison foreshadows future confinements, but it is also a rude distortion of a young body striving to know itself. At one point the young man stands naked before a mirror and attempts to sketch his reflection. But "he found it very difficult to draw himself without drawing in the paper and pencil too." The result is a picture of his body drawing his body...
Buoyed by such acclaim, back in Rome a tired John Paul and his harried entourage barely had enough time to unpack, greet the visiting President Reagan, sketch plans, repack and take off Friday for Argentina. That journey of 7,000 miles carries no ecumenical agenda whatsoever; the population is 92% Catholic, compared with Britain's 13%. But while the basic purpose is pastoral, even more than in Britain the political landscape is dotted with opportunities for trouble. "The Pope's visit could weigh heavily in peace negotiations," La Prensa, the leading daily in Buenos Aires, warned last week...
...Falkland Islands conflict is not a televised war, and almost the only real sense of the scene must come from the dispatches of British correspondents with the troops and the recollections of expatriate islanders. Here is a summary sketch of Port San Carlos before British troops moved out, derived from press reports and from interviews with Falklanders now in England...
Boston police last week released a composite sketch of a man suspected of raping a Jamaica Plain social worker at Harvard's Arnold Arboreturn 10 days...
...premise is safe and sound. The unconscious breeds symbols and images; art is the unconscious made visible, and dreams are the bedtime stories we tell ourselves before we wake. Who then could feign indifference to the dreams of artists? Virginia Woolf recalled a nightmare in A Sketch of the Past: "I dreamt I was looking in a glass when a horrible face-the face of an animal-suddenly showed over my shoulder." The visitation was, she said, her persistent "looking glass shame," and in a fantasy of a haunted house she later wrote, "Death was the glass! Death was between...